Indicators of collaboration intensity?

[Isola]

Carlos :

You are right ! I am sorry for the  error.

Isola

Carlos Suarez wrote:

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> Dear Steven - I think that the year of publication of Isola article is
> 1988 and not 1998 ...
>
> regards
> Carlos
>
> "Steven A. Morris" <samorri at OKSTATE.EDU> escribió:
>
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>     Wow! So much information just for the asking...
>
>     Isola,
>
>     Thanks kindly for the reference. It looks very relevant to what
>     I'm after.
>     I'll have to order it through interlibrary loan, since my
>     Scientometric
>     subscription only goes back to 2000....
>
>     Steven
>
>
>     On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:05:23 -0400, Isola wrote:
>
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>     >
>     >Steven :
>     >
>     >You have mentioned two of the indicators, i.e. the mean number of
>     >authors per paper, and the percentage of multiple-authored papers
>     (this
>     >is just the complement of the percentage of single authored papers).
>     >There is a third one, called! the collaborative coefficient, which is
>     >more sensitive than the other two. See the following article for
>     details :
>     >
>     >Ajiferuke, I. , Burrell, Q. & Tague, J. (1998). Collaborative
>     >coefficient : A single measure of the degree of collaboration in
>     >research. Scientometrics, 14(5-6), 421-433.
>     >
>     >Best wishes,
>     >
>     >Isola
>     >
>     >Steven A. Morris wrote:
>     >
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>     >>
>     >>Hi folks,
>     >>
>     >>Does anyone out there know of an indicator of the "intensity" of
>     >>collaboration that characterizes a research specialty? For example,
>     >>mathematicians tend to be loners that don't often work with others,
>     >>therefore mathematical specialties have "low" collaboration
>     intensity.
>     >>Biomedical researchers tend to work in large teams, so biomedical
>     >>specialties have "high" collaboration intensity.
>     >>
>     >>One possible indicator would be the mean authors per paper in a
>     >>specialty's literature. This is actually not a very sensitive
>     indicator I
>     >>think. Another indicator could be the percentage of single authored
>     >>papers, which I think is more sensitive, e.g.,
>     >>
>     >>Specialty percent 1 collaboration
>     >> auth papers intensity
>     >>======================================
>     >>Distance 47% low
>     >>eductation
>     >>
>     >>Complex 23% medium
>     >>networks
>     >>
>     >>angio- 7% high
>     >> genesis
>     >>
>     >>Does anyone have any ideas or references on
>     >>collaboration intensity indicators?
>     >>
>     >>Thanks,
>     >>
>     >>Steven Morris
>     >>Oklahoma State University
>     >>
>     >>
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